F1: Beyond The Grid Podcast
Discussion
tobinen said:
Patrick Tambay now up. I found him difficult to follow but he has Parkinson's disease as it turns out.
Looking forward to finding out about him, I wasn't a scratch in my Dad's pants when he was around.Found Hulkenberg a boring listen. Scheckter was quite interesting, no mention of Thomas though.
LaurasOtherHalf said:
I didn’t much enjoy the Tambay one, being asked a question and answering “you’ll have to buy my autobiography” was a low blow.
As annoying as it is he is neither the first or last interviewee to mention "buy the book" or "it's in the book"Other than that how can you not enjoy that interview from a driver who lost friends and peers and unafraid to have a matter-of-fact view of Gilles rather than the more popular romanticised views.
entropy said:
LaurasOtherHalf said:
I didn’t much enjoy the Tambay one, being asked a question and answering “you’ll have to buy my autobiography” was a low blow.
As annoying as it is he is neither the first or last interviewee to mention "buy the book" or "it's in the book"Other than that how can you not enjoy that interview from a driver who lost friends and peers and unafraid to have a matter-of-fact view of Gilles rather than the more popular romanticised views.
Derek Warwick interview released today.Comes over as a very honest and straight forward fellow,which I am sure he is in life. The unreliability of the cars he drove must have been a severe test of commitment but I suppose all the drivers of the day had the same issues to an extent. A couple of great anecdotes about a few better known characters and a very nice hat tip to a certain Sky presenter at the end. Possibly my favorite in the series so far and previously a driver I knew very little about even though he drove in getting on for 150 GP`s.
rival38 said:
Derek Warwick interview released today.Comes over as a very honest and straight forward fellow,which I am sure he is in life. The unreliability of the cars he drove must have been a severe test of commitment but I suppose all the drivers of the day had the same issues to an extent. A couple of great anecdotes about a few better known characters and a very nice hat tip to a certain Sky presenter at the end. Possibly my favorite in the series so far and previously a driver I knew very little about even though he drove in getting on for 150 GP`s.
I had no real plans to listen prior to reading your review. It really is excellent.Despite being a household name, as we did not have social media back then, it is amazing how little we actually knew about a driver if they were not at the front every weekend.
So it was great to have him fill in the gaps in such an honest and open way.
rdjohn said:
I had no real plans to listen prior to reading your review. It really is excellent.
Despite being a household name, as we did not have social media back then, it is amazing how little we actually knew about a driver if they were not at the front every weekend.
So it was great to have him fill in the gaps in such an honest and open way.
Derek's was a great one, some real highs and lows.Despite being a household name, as we did not have social media back then, it is amazing how little we actually knew about a driver if they were not at the front every weekend.
So it was great to have him fill in the gaps in such an honest and open way.
Schumacher's team mate made me laugh
I've been catching up on these recently.
Warwick came across as very honest, the bits about Paul clearly came from the heart and even after all this time obviously difficult to talk about, yet not long after he tells us the Schumacher story - highs and lows indeed.
The Lewis one was quite disarming I thought, I think a lot of people expect him to be the rapper-esque egomainiac that the press makes him out to be. Just sounds like he's enjoying his racing more than ever but become a much more rounded person than his Mclaren "upbringing" did.
Someone should sit Brundle down and get him to tell them all the stories, he's emmintently listenable.
Generally I think the quality of BTG is very good.
Can you imagine if this sort of thing was about when we still had people like Ken Tyrell, John Cooper, Piers Courage, Clark, Chapman etc ? I think it would have been very interesting to hear what they had to say.
Some years ago Herbert did an "audience with.." kind of tour that had the same sort of feel and he took questions from the audience. It'd be good to have the same sort of thing or podcast episodes with multiple people, I'm sure more off track stories would find their way out.
Its US centric, but you might like the "dinner with racers" series. They are typically longer than BTG (especially when they couldn't shut Bobby Unser up
). There is a recent one with Derek bell and an older one with Brian Redman along with many others - I liked Bobby Allison's one ".. then he went to beating his nose on my fists..". The Don Garlits one tells an incredible story and the very first one with Andy Lally and cheating in NASCAR is pretty funny too. Lots and lots of names past and present https://www.dinnerwithracers.com you should find it on most podcast listings.
Warwick came across as very honest, the bits about Paul clearly came from the heart and even after all this time obviously difficult to talk about, yet not long after he tells us the Schumacher story - highs and lows indeed.
The Lewis one was quite disarming I thought, I think a lot of people expect him to be the rapper-esque egomainiac that the press makes him out to be. Just sounds like he's enjoying his racing more than ever but become a much more rounded person than his Mclaren "upbringing" did.
Someone should sit Brundle down and get him to tell them all the stories, he's emmintently listenable.
Generally I think the quality of BTG is very good.
Can you imagine if this sort of thing was about when we still had people like Ken Tyrell, John Cooper, Piers Courage, Clark, Chapman etc ? I think it would have been very interesting to hear what they had to say.
Some years ago Herbert did an "audience with.." kind of tour that had the same sort of feel and he took questions from the audience. It'd be good to have the same sort of thing or podcast episodes with multiple people, I'm sure more off track stories would find their way out.
Its US centric, but you might like the "dinner with racers" series. They are typically longer than BTG (especially when they couldn't shut Bobby Unser up
). There is a recent one with Derek bell and an older one with Brian Redman along with many others - I liked Bobby Allison's one ".. then he went to beating his nose on my fists..". The Don Garlits one tells an incredible story and the very first one with Andy Lally and cheating in NASCAR is pretty funny too. Lots and lots of names past and present https://www.dinnerwithracers.com you should find it on most podcast listings.Crafty_ said:
Can you imagine if this sort of thing was about when we still had people like Ken Tyrell, John Cooper, Piers Courage, Clark, Chapman etc ? I think it would have been very interesting to hear what they had to say.
I don't know if the Rob Widdows stuff did on Radio in the 70s would be similar to that?:https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article...
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